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Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Apprentice

£16.64k per annum

Summary

Gain knowledge, skills and experience by fully engaging in the apprenticeship to achieve the qualification. Support departments including engineering, manufacturing, stores and workforce management, travel to customer sites to work safely and efficiently, and attend required training to gain accreditations and progress.

Wage

£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Training course
Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)

Hours
Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed. MAJORITY OF THE TIME YOU WILL BE WORKING AWAY FROM HOME ALL WEEK.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 24 August 2026

Duration

3 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

As our Engineering Apprentice, we’ll help you to become qualified so you can: 

  • Carry out planned preventative maintenance
  • Provide maintenance of equipment
  • Modify, test, and inspect condition-based monitoring and fault finding with our systems
  • Help improve systems on our sites where required
  • Work on technology which monitors and controls all aspects of processes and their performance across the site
  • Carry out risk assessments and method statements to ensure activities are always completed in a safe manner

In addition: 

  • Completing all tasks set by the supervisor and assisting wherever possible
  • Observing existing strategies and techniques and offering suggestions for improvement
  • Conducting research and collating data
  • Working closely with colleagues and mentors to foster professional values and build good relationships
  • Always observing health and safety guidelines
  • Attending meetings and workshops when required
  • Submitting to all forms of evaluation during the apprenticeship

Where you'll work

3 Ventura Court
Swann Street
Hull
HU2 0PH

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

DN COLLEGES GROUP

Training course

Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician (level 3)

What you'll learn

Course contents

  • Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
  • Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
  • Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
  • Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
  • Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
  • perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
  • Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
  • Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
  • Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
  • Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
  • Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
  • Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
  • Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
  • Identify and use tools and equipment.
  • Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
  • Complete a customer handover.
  • Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
  • Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
  • Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
  • Apply ethical principles.
  • Comply with health and safety, regulations and standards. Apply safe systems of work, including carrying out a risk assessment.
  • Comply with environmental and sustainability regulations and standards for example prevention of refrigerant emissions, segregate resources for reuse and, recycling and disposal of waste.
  • Position, fix, joint and test, pipework and electrical circuits.
  • Test, charge with refrigerant and commission vapour compression systems.
  • Test and commission electrical and electronic control systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
  • Interpret information and data from log books and diagrams.
  • perform servicing, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on vapour compression systems including routine and reactive maintenance, installation of components and safe electrical isolation of supply.
  • Perform routine service, maintenance, fault diagnosis and rectification procedures and techniques on electrical and electrical control systems applicable to vapour compression systems including carrying out safe isolation procedures.
  • Decommission vapour compression systems, safe recovery and disposal of equipment, hazardous waste refrigerant transfer.
  • Decommission electrical and electronic systems applicable to vapour compression systems.
  • Adjust vapour compression system operating parameters to achieve reductions in carbon emissions.
  • Maximise performance of vapour compression systems by determining heating and cooling loads and selecting and balancing components and systems.
  • Retrofit and retro fill existing equipment to lower GWP refrigerants.
  • Mitigate risks of refrigerants including environmental, toxicity and flammability hazards.
  • Identify and use tools and equipment.
  • Communicate with others verbally and in writing.
  • Complete a customer handover.
  • Work collaboratively with clients or stakeholders to solve problems.
  • Apply project leadership techniques and principles.
  • Use information and digital technology and comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations.
  • Apply ethical principles.

Training schedule

Training will be at HESTA, Hull where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer.   

Block release.

Refrigeration air conditioning and heat pump engineering technician. You will undertake Functional Skills for English and/or Maths if needed      

You will undertake both on and off-the-job training by a team of industry qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge and experience that will help you become an engineer of the future! 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 4/C)
  • Maths (grade 4/C)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

You must be able to travel to and from work and college.

This apprenticeship will be working away from home 18+, so needs to drive. Apprentices are paid for their normal working hours and training that's part of their apprenticeship (usually one day per week).

The Apprenticeship National Minimum Wage guide is updated every April (ANMW):

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